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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 5 Jan 2012, 13:40)
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Have you tried Auschwitz - a Doctor's eyewitness account by Miklós Nyiszli? Worked as a SonderKommando doctor for Mentele as a pathologist - truly harrowing. Used as prima facie evidence at the Nuremburg trials.
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Hunter Stockton was murdered by a bicycle wielding axolotl,.,.,.,., Sat 7 Jan 2012, 12:25,
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indeedit's one of my hobby horses so I have read more than is good for me.
If it's nitty gritty you want then Auschwitz Inferno: Testimony of a Sonderkommando by Filip Muller is fascinating
Hoess's account of running Auschwitz is self serving bilge but still interesting.
Into That Darkness, Gita Sereny's interviews with Franz Stangl repays the time.
And of course 9 hours of Lanzmann's Shoah is indispensable. "If you could lick my heart it would poison you" Abraham Bomba.
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